@letitbk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. I study social cohesion, health, and political polarization using LLMs, causal inference, and social network analysis. https://www.byungkyulee.com/
Our Responsible AI team at Apple is looking for spring/summer 2026 PhD research interns! Please apply at jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... and email rai-internship@group.apple.com. Do not send extra info (e.g., CV), just drop us a line so we can find your application in the central pool!
10.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0🚨It's that exciting time of year!🚨
Our team has got TWO open DPhil (PhD) positions in #datascience + #health here at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social for 2026🎉! See for details:
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2️⃣ 👉 crahal.com/pophealth_2026.html
Please share and help us to find our future teammates ❤️!
Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰
My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours?
Apply by Nov 15.
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗
📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
A new study confirms what I’ve known for years: ambivalent ties (relationships w/ intermittent stress + support) may accelerate aging *more* than purely negative ones. Half-and-half ties (like with dysfunctional family) can be the most damaging. Very validating! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40475146/
08.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)!
apply.interfolio.com/169206
Hurray!
14.06.2025 07:55 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Plot showing that married LGBTQ adults with a same-sex spouse or partner rate their relationship more highly than those living with a partner
Our survey of LGBTQ adults in the U.S. found that most who are married to or living with a same-sex spouse or partner (63%) say their relationship is going very well, and married respondents are especially likely to say this.
www.pewresearch.org/...
Over at the blog, I write about a few interesting articles about place. Features of place matter for suicide rates. Features of place are really changing.
asocial.substack.com/p/inequality...
Who polices which boundaries? How racial self-identification affects external classification https://osf.io/bhrdj This study explores whether Americans agree on the ethnoracial categories that are worth policing. It evaluates how receptive White, Black, Latino, and Asian Americans are to #sociology
07.06.2025 06:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1thanks much!!
04.06.2025 21:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thanks!!
04.06.2025 21:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am happy to share the news that our paper received an Honorable Mention for the Best Publication Award from the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health, ASA, this year!!
04.06.2025 15:42 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Oh yes, that’s actually part of another paper I’m working on with Brea. The short answer is yes, but it’s more about how embedded family and friends are in your network. The more deeply embedded they are, the stronger their negative influence tends to be.
27.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"That one toxic friend" might be aging you faster!
Our new working paper shows that negative social ties are common and linked to faster epigenetic aging, higher inflammation, and poorer mental and physical health.
Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Associations Between Negative Social Ties and Accelerated Biological Aging, Inflammation, and Multiple Morbidities https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.23.25328261v1
25.05.2025 16:57 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
New paper with Daria Tisch (@dariatisch.bsky.social) on fairness perceptions of housework divisions using a multi-factorial experiment in the U.S., now out in one of my favorite journals––Gender and Society: doi.org/10.1177/0891...
22.05.2025 17:23 — 👍 46 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 4
Marco Rubio says he alone can deport people for their “past, current, or expected beliefs”
10.04.2025 22:37 — 👍 389 🔁 206 💬 83 📌 59Congrats!!! Fantastic news!!
11.04.2025 10:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.
26.03.2025 18:36 — 👍 189 🔁 88 💬 6 📌 1Shame. This is happening across essential institutions: media, Congress, law firms, & now universities. Instead of standing up to illegal authoritarian power grabs, they capitulate, hoping the threat will pass. It won’t. And as the rule of law & the constitutional order die, so does our democracy.
21.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Friendly reminder for faculty to join @aaup.bsky.social ! They are fighting for us and we should be members!
www.aaup.org/membership/d...
A screenshot from a court filing reads, in part: "Julio Noriega is 54 years old, was born in Chicago, and is a U.S. citizen. On January 31, 2025, he was walking near the corner of Cermak Road and Harlem Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses. As he walked out of a Jiffy Lube, he was approached by ICE officers who grabbed and handcuffed him and put him into a van, without an opportunity to explain his citizenship. The officers drove Julio and others around for more than an hour before bringing him to an ICE processing center, where he remained, still handcuffed, for several more hours. All the while, Julio had a wallet containing identification that ICE had confiscated. The officers never showed Julio a warrant, and they did not ask him any questions to ascertain whether he was a noncitizen or a flight risk. After about 10 hours, ICE officers reviewed the contents of Julio’s wallet, realized he was a U.S. citizen, and released him with no money and no paperwork."
A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...
10.03.2025 07:12 — 👍 105634 🔁 16503 💬 835 📌 564
No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Come work with me! 1 year postdoc opportunity to work with me on workers' roles in AI safety. Social science and participatory methods a must, experience working with trade unions a +
More info & apply here -->
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